Yearly Archives: 2026

The March for Peace in Auckland, New Zealand, on June 20

ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean An Israeli cabinet minister has named the new Middle East on live radio --  and he named it in alarm. What Diaspora...
Nouméa bus operator Tanéo

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific The Greater Nouméa bus network service will be maintained on New Caledonia's provincial election day, Sunday June 28, bus...
An AI-generated image depicting Trita Parsi being arrested by ICE agents

EDITORIAL: Drop Site News The Free Press, an American news organisation founded by the Zionist editor-in-chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss, and now owned by...
Gaza flotilla humanitarian activist Hāhona Ormsby

By Penny Smith of RNZ A New Zealand activist detained as part of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla is calling on the government to launch an...
Children have clear advice for politicians at Auckland's March for Peace

Greenpeace Aotearoa The streets of Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, echoed with the sound of people power today. From Aotea Square to the US Consulate on...
Iranian American international affairs professor Vali Nasr

Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: The United States and Iran have officially signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war in Iran. The signing...
Joseph Auga Matamata aka Viliamu Samu in court

By Lucy Xia of RNZ A Hawke's Bay horticultural labour contractor, who was the first person to be convicted of both human trafficking and slavery...
Israeli Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman

Even Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong believes the Gaza flotilla victims and the AFP (Australian Federal Police) is investigating, yet Israel’s ambassador and the...
Political party posters on display at the Nouméa Town Hall

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific Political parties in New Caledonia are now in full campaigning mode for the French Pacific territory's provincial elections. The campaign...
The opening of the 2026 session of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (C-24) meeting

RNZ Pacific The UN Special Committee on Decolonisation has heard renewed calls for action on Kanaky New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Guam and Tokelau. Pacnews reports that...
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown

By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira of RNZ Te Ao Māori Auckland's mayor has hit out at a New Zealand First election campaign promise to scrap the city's...
Despite the presence of many well-known pro-Palestinian activists, there was no security in the room

SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle Something significant and revelatory just happened in the New Zealand Parliament. I was present at today’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee...
Gaza freedom flotilla activist Hāhona Ormsby (right) being welcomed home at Auckland International Airport on Sunday

Asia Pacific Report A member of the Aotearoa delegation on the Global Sumud flotilla humanitarian aid mission seeking to break the illegal Gaza enclave blockade...
Vanuatu's Anna Naupa (left) has been appointed as the new Melanesian Spearhead Group Director-General

RNZ Pacific A Pacific politics expert and ni-Vanuatu woman has become the first woman to be appointed to lead the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat. Anna...
Iran deal proves one thing

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Two days ago, I wrote an article and posted on FaceBook describing the US-Iran ceasefire as a surrender document. That article...
PSNA national organiser John Minto

By Keiller MacDuff of RNZ Police have paid $10,000 to veteran activist John Minto after he was unlawfully arrested and pepper-sprayed at a pro-Palestinian protest...
Gaza Sumud flotilla survivors: Juliet Lamont, Isla Lamont, Neve O'Connor

The Australian government has committed to an independent investigation into the assaults, sexual assaults and torture of the Gaza Flotilla humanitarians. Michael West Media...
Fiji human rights advocate Shamima Ali

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific A human rights activist in Fiji is calling for the joint police-military taskforce on drugs to be disbanded, but...
"You blow up a girls' school."

COMMENTARY: By Tucker Carlson So, the whole Iran war, like so much of life, has turned out to be exactly the opposite of what you...
The whistleblowing soldiers of 1967 admitted their job was not to “fight the enemy” – or “eradicate the terrorists”, as Israeli leaders now term it. It was to kill and terrorise Palestinian civilians

In October 2023, Israel found an excuse to breathe new life into an old story of slaughter and expulsion. The chief differences this time...
Political commentator appointed The Post chief editor Matthew Hooton

ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock of RNZ Mediawatch Change is a constant in the tough world of digital-age news media these days and many old ways...
An educational in-depth view of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monumen

By Mark Rabago of RNZ Pacific A conservation group has condemned Donald Trump's decision to allow commercial fishing in parts of the Mariana Trench Marine...